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Ease your morning routine with calming harmonies

Calming classical music to inspire focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Calming classical music to help you focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Featuring soft, enchanting melodies from composers including Elgar, Price, and Bruch, and a chance to Find Your Focus this morning with the gentle piano music of Elliott Jack Sansom. Sian Takes a Breath beside a harbour, and takes inspiration from the boats heading out to sea, and Professor Catherine Loveday explores how the spaces we listen to music in, can alter the way we experience the sounds.

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Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta, FP141 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Bramwell Tovey. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Wiegenlied, D 498

    Performer: Benedict Kloeckner. Performer: Yu Kosuge.
    • SWR Kultur.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Konzertstück Op 113 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Clarinotts. Ensemble: Wiener Virtuosen Streichensemble.
    • Mercury.

  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    Suite for Strings (3rd mvt, 'Romance')

    Conductor: Douglas Bostock. Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim.
    • CPO.

  • Matthew Coleridge

    3 Songs of Light (No 2, 'A Thousand Windows')

    Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Convivium.

  • Elliott Jack Sansom

    Lumen

    Performer: Elliot Jack Sansom.
    • Moderna.

  • Rebecca Dale

    Materna Requiem (9th mvt, 'Libera Me')

    Performer: Angèle Dubeau. Orchestra: La Pieta.
    • Analekta.

  • Cipriani Potter

    Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Trad.

    Greensleeves

    Performer: Alis Huws.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento No 4 for 3 Basset Horns, K 439b (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Hansjörg Angerer. Ensemble: Bläserphilharmonie Mozarteum Salzburg.
    • DG.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Symphony No 2 in E major, Op 40 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Mi Teresita, 'Little Waltz'

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Conductor: Irene Delgado-Jiménez. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV1007, arr for guitar (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Marco Emmanuele.
    • Milano Dischi.

  • Edward Elgar

    In Smyrna (piano sketch)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Max Reger

    A Romantic Suite, Op 125 (1st mvt, 'Notturno')

    Conductor: Gerd Albrecht. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
    • DG.

  • Sarah Cattley

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Caritas Chamber Choir. Conductor: Benedict Preece.
    • Sarah Cattley.

  • Roger Quilter

    Where Go the Boats

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Philips.

  • Ricardo Castro

    Intermezzo de Atzimba

    Conductor: Alondra de la Parra. Orchestra: Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas.
    • Sony.

  • Florence Price

    On the Top of a Tree

    Performer: Michael Clark.
    • Navona.

  • Leonardo Andersen

    Milonga del que Vuelve

    Performer: Leonardo Andersen.
    • Prima.

  • Alberto Ginastera

    Estancia, Op 8, Scene 2 (Danza del Trigo)

    Conductor: Gisèle Ben-Dor. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op18 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Conductor: Carlos Miguel Prieto. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Franz Liszt

    Un Sospiro

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Bertrand.
    • Pentatone.

  • Christopher Churcher

    Everything is Going to Be Alright

    Performer: Mar Umbert Kimura. Choir: Somerville College Choir, Oxford. Conductor: Will Dawes.
    • Resonus.

  • Mieczyslaw Karlowicz

    Violin Concerto in A major, Op 8 (2nd mvt, 'Romanza')

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Trad.

    A City Called Heaven

    Choir: Conspirare. Conductor: Craig Hella Johnson.
    • HM.

  • Adrian Sutton

    War Horse Orchestral Suite (No 6, 'Joey and Albert Reunited')

    Conductor: Michael Seal. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Colour Suite (4th mvt, 'Blue Air')

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • First Hand.

  • Max Bruch

    Symphony No 3 in E major, Op 51 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Robert Treviño. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
    • CPO.

  • Quincy Jones

    The Midnight Sun Will Never Set

    Ensemble: WindSync.
    • Outhere.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Op 109 (3rd mvt, 'Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk')

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en forme de valses (4th mvt, Scherzo-valse)

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Erkki Melartin

    Blue Pearl Suite (No 15, 'Pas de deux')

    Music Arranger: Hannu Lintu. Music Arranger: Jens Kyllonen. Conductor: Hannu Lintu. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • ONDINE.

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